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“Lee’s hand shook as he filled the delicate cups. He drank his down in one gulp. “Don’t you see?” he cried. “The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.’ Don’t you see?”

“Demokracija dozvoljava da se glas ljudi čuje, a zadatak je intelektualaca da osiguraju da taj glas ima pečat ispravnog kursa. Propaganda je demokraciji isto što i nasilje totalitarizmu. Tehnike su izbrušene u visoku umjetnost, daleko iznad bilo čega o čemu je Orwell sanjao. Aparat zamišljene različitosti u mišljenju, koji inkorporira doktrine Državne religije i eliminira racionalnu kritičku diskusiju, jedna je od profinjenijih metoda, premda su i sirovije tehnike u uporabi, i također nas efektivno sprečavaju da vidimo ono što gledamo, da naučimo i razumijemo svijet u kojem živimo.”